Members of the Doðubeyazýt Municipal Council in Aðrý province were given one-month, 20-day jail sentences, while the district's mayor was sentenced to six months in prison for naming a park in their district after Kurdish great poet and philosopher Ehmedê Xanî.  

Doðubeyazýt Municipality named a new municipal park opened four years ago after Xanî, the, writer of the epic “Mem û Zîn”.

The “X” in Xanî's name was problematic, according to a prosecutor, who took the park's name to the Doðubeyazýt Criminal Court of 1st Instance in 2008. The final verdict was given on May 3, 2011, with the court handing down the sentences to Mayor Mukaddes Kubilay and the municipal council members from the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) for their “responsibility” in naming the park a word that has the letter “x” in it, which the court found is in violation of an earlier republican era law on the Turkish script.

The mayor and the council members were also ordered to pay a TL 3,000 each. Both the jail sentences and the monetary fines were suspended.